Format:
Book
Author:
Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
Title:
Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war / Robert M. Gates.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Description:
x, 618 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Summary:
Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Now he takes us behind the scenes of his nearly five years as a secretary at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding, and often dissenting, voice for Obama; the ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers—his “heroes”—he developed on the job.
Subjects:
Gates, Robert Michael, 1943-
United States. Department of Defense -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Personal narratives, American.
Civil-military relations -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
United States -- Military policy -- Decision making.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
Notes:
Includes index.
LCCN:
2013026348
ISBN:
9780307959478 (hardcover)
0307959473 (hardcover)
Other Number:
867718270
System Availability:
49
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3158975
Call Number:
355.6092 B
Course Reserves:
0
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49